Letting Change speak for its self
Video interviews with street cobblers from the second cohort, recorded a month after they finished the PTP business growth programme.
Mochee Project
We knew it was never going to be easy
In November 2012 PTP lost a cohort of 30 street cobblers in Rawalpindi after a delegate made extortionate demands, and learned to keep cohorts small.
Word from Dara Adam Khel
A video interview with a young professional from Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on life, Taliban recruitment and poverty, after the October 2012 bombing.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test log
Field test log from 3 to 7 September 2012: four street cobblers attended five evening sessions on business planning, marketing, pricing and record keeping.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test
In September 2012 PTP field-tested version 1.1 of its Business Growth Manual, then in Urdu, with four street cobblers over five two-hour evening sessions.
Standing on the shoulders of a giant!
How the Timpson group opened its shoe repair training to Peace Through Prosperity in 2012, and what its trainers changed about a street cobbler’s toolkit.
A peek into the life of a street cobbler in Pakistan
A video of interviews with street cobblers in Haripur, drawn from the 400+ interviews recorded in the pilot stage of PTP’s Cobbler (Mochee) Project.
Geographical Area Covered for the pilot of the Cobbler/Mochee Project
PTP’s cobbler pilot covered Rawalpindi and Chichawatni in Punjab and Haripur and Darra Adam Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where surveys were seized in 2012.
Demographics of Street Cobblers Surveyed – Their age range
PTP’s 2012 pilot survey of street cobblers found 47.39% were aged 12 to 28 and 70.14% were aged 12 to 40, reflecting Pakistan’s youth bulge.
The Mochee Project (Street Cobbler Project)
An outline of the Mochee Project for street cobblers in Pakistan, after surveys in Chichawatni, Rawalpindi, Haripur and Darra Adam Khel.